A brand new, extended version of Rena's Promise went on sale March 17, 2015. locate it indexed within the different variations of this name, or seek through ISBN: 978-080709313-9.

Sent to Auschwitz at the first Jewish shipping, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi demise camps for over 3 years. whereas there she was once reunited along with her sister Danka. on a daily basis grew to become a fight to meet the promise Rena made to her mom whilst the family members was once compelled to separate apart--a promise to keep up her sister.

One of the few Holocaust memoirs concerning the lives of ladies within the camps, Rena's Promise is a compelling tale of the fleeting human connections that fostered selection and made survival achievable. From the bonds among moms, daughters, and sisters, to the hyperlinks among prisoners, or even prisoners and guards, Rena's Promise reminds us of the humanity and desire that survives inordinate inhumanity.

Judenjagd, hunt for the Jews, was once the German time period for the prepared searches for Jews who, having survived ghetto liquidations and deportations to demise camps in Poland in 1942, tried to conceal "on the Aryan aspect. " Jan Grabowski's penetrating microhistory tells the tale of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland, the place nearly all of the Jews in hiding perished because of betrayal via their Polish acquaintances.

Extra resources for Germany and the Second World War: Volume 4: The Attack on the Soviet Union

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In order to escape the risk o f a war on two fronts, a risk which would arise if London allied itself with M oscow and if Germany were first to attack the Soviet Union, four weeks later the Army High Command came out in favour of a continuation of Germ an-Soviet co-operation worldwide. ‘This being so, could deliver the British a decisive blow in the Mediterranean, shoulder them away from Asia, help the Italians in building up their Mediter­ ranean Empire, and, with the aid o f Russia, consolidate the Reich which we have created in western and northern Europe.

But concealed behind the statistics was often the fact that only a limited number o f first-rate divisions was available, certainly of motorized formations. One armoured division was not the same as another armoured division. The Wehrmacht had not really been ‘ equipped’ , in the proper sense of the word, for war against the Soviet Union. Frequently the only equipment available was captured weapons and vehicles. This process is here for the first time coherently documented from the sources. Introduction 7 All the decisive aspects o f the war ultimately resulted from the fact that the anticipated rapid collapse o f the Soviet Union did not take place: there was the attrition o f Germ an human and material potential, inability to utilize the country economically on the planned scale, and finally also the mass deaths of Soviet prisoners o f war.